Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-18


sud that he made this man q present of
several Thousand dollars for getting him
~ invoice of Prince Metternich's Blue
Seal. Nearly sll Of our noted mtllinnaires
hsve French cooks snd Stewards cook
was one OF the best. Secretary Whituey's
house at Washington has a range as big
as that OF hotel and he has very cheer
full way of serving champagne st the most
of his receptions. Theodore Havemeyer,
the rich sugar factor, has q
hobby OF stock farming land
his mountain side farm has 8
barn 263 feet long with c.rrisge way
running through il. AS on Pelmer's
farm which spoke Of, steam is here used
for everything, and Hsvemey0r, like Pal
mer, has nearly 100 jersey cows with G
jersey bull which cost him $4,000.
A number of rich men are lobbyists on
religious or moral questions, and the
names of two now occur to me who are
noted Prohibitionists. These are Z. 7.
Barnum, the rich Snowman, and Schu-
mscher, the maker OF nesrly all the cat
meal for the United States. Barnum
stopped drinking In 1S47. He first said
he would not drink liquors, but
he made mental reservation as
to champagne. He did not consider
cbsmpagne-drinkiDg at all dangerous
until he heard q temperance lecture at
Bridgeport, the subject OF which was
Moderate Drinkers and Champagne
Suppers-" The next dav the lecturer
called upon him. Bsrnum took him down
into his wine cpllsr, showed him lot Of
champagne bottles with the heads
knocked off. and told him to look at the
effect Of his arguments. The lecturer
was sstonished and said be thought Bar
mum was tee-totaler. Bsrnum replied
that he was now, and from thst time to
this ne has not tsken q drop. He does
not smoke or chew, and he sometimes
lectures on temperance. Schumacher
will not employ man in his works who
drinks beer, and he thinks the hest liquid
in the world is oatmeal water
He gives his employees, however. picnic
once yesr and upon New Years invites
them TO his house. Phil Armour is said
to have hobby in supporting negro
churches. He has also several mission
schools, one of which contains HOO
children, and not long ago one of his
schools of this kind die not seem to be
doing very well. He called the preacher
to him and told him he was not managing
it correctly, snd that he ought to preach
SO and so. The preacher questioned his
policy, but he carried it out end it ia now
full to overfl0wing. Armour has also 8
kindergarten in one Of his schools, and it.
is said that he has given more than
100000 to such ends.
The fast millionaire of to-day invaria-
bly, owns e fast horse and our rich men
In ~,
There stables in New York the main
tensnce OF which costs from $4,000 to
SIS, 900 a year, and it is estimated that
Robert Bonner has spent $500 900 upon
bis hobby Of fast horses. Rsrus cost
him S36 coo. and it is said that he psid
$4,000 for Maud S. Senator Stanford
is now erecting stable in Washington
which is to cost $40, coo, and his horses
upon the PSIo Alto farm have 3 value
running into the millions. He breeds
here f.st trotting horses, and he averages
q colt fer every day il the year. Esch of
these colts Is worth not less than $1,000,
and he makes ye2Tly sales Of horses OF
$4,000 and upwards. he lately sold
horse to Senator Stockbridge for this
amount, and his private secretary told me
not long ago that he got $50, 900 cash at
one auction sale Of his horses in New
York and brought it home in his pockets.
Pierre Lorillsrd sold off $4,000 worth
Of horses year ago End LOrillard has
owned some Of the finest steeds in the
United States. He has keptracing horses
md it was hie Parole who won $40 600 in
England, and his IrOquois, the famous
racer who brought $4,000 st his sale, is
the only American horse who has won the
EOgllsh derby, the st. Lager and Wales
stakes, and be IS said to be the handsom-
est horse in America. Iroquois was
bought by the mi lionaire Tennessee stock
man, General W. II. Jackson, who has a
farm of 1900 acres, and who owns Luke
Great Tom and Bramble.
Congressman Scott of Pennsylvania,
has stock farm Of 500 acres and he
keeps this full of fine horses. He has a
race track 1 think under cover and one @!
his horses cost $50, 900.
Robert Bonner, however, is the prince
Of horse fsnclers. He does not buy his
horses for racing, nor DIES he buy them
fo- the advertisement of his business.
All the world thought him extravsgtnt
when he paid S35, 900 for Dexter, but he
has bought DOZEN and more hign priced
horses sipce then end he paid $40 eco for
Pocohontas. Stsrtle, Edward Everett,
Joe Elliott and Maud Macy each cost
MIN $4,000, and he paid GIG, 900 for Ed
win Forrest. He bought Maud S. Of Van
erbilt, and Vanderbilt sold him the
horse for $40, 900 when he had been Of
tered $780, 900 for her py other parties.
Wander lit did not want Maud S. to be
put upon the race course. He got tired
Of beiHg asked to race her, and he told
Bonner he could have her at his own
price. Bonner fixed the price at $4,000
md Vanderbilt gave him the horse.
Bonper's New York stables have now
several hundred thousand dollars worth
Of horses within them, and among these
IS Dexter, who is now nearly thirty years
Of age. Bonner comes out to his sts bles
IS soon as he returns from his Off ;e, and
he trests his horses as though they were
lis children, pettipg them and playing
with them. He does not allsW the N to
be whipped, and is as careful of them as
though they were babies. Senator Palmer |
If Michigan does not allow a cross |
word to be used upon his stock farm,
snd he tells his men in working |
the horses that they should give them |
water to drink whenever they want q |
drink themselves. Palmer has his stock |
80 trained that the colts will come up and |
rub their noses against him when he |
comes into the field, and he says that the |
average horse has considerably more |
sense than the average man. He was led |
INTO keeping Percheron horses by his ad- |
niration of q picture of Ross Bopheurs |